Table 2.

Multi-profile alignment of the glycomic dataset with and without using a GP prior

Performance measure	Binning without GP prior				Clustering without GP prior				Binning with GP prior				Clustering with GP prior
	2	3	4	5	2	3	4	5	2	3	4	5	2	3	4	5
Precision	0.957	0.960	0.964	0.963	0.964	0.980	0.979	0.980	0.976	0.977	0.978	0.974	0.980	0.979	0.980	0.980
	(0.007)	(0.008)	(0.007)	(0.006)	(0.007)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.002)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.004)	(0.006)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.002)	(0.003)
Recall	0.766	0.783	0.770	0.780	0.796	0.906	0.910	0.913	0.848	0.856	0.830	0.837	0.904	0.904	0.907	0.908
	(0.138)	(0.122)	(0.147)	(0.154)	(0.138)	(0.094)	(0.099)	(0.092)	(0.151)	(0.141)	(0.160)	(0.156)	(0.098)	(0.099)	(0.095)	(0.096)

Note: Precision and recall are compared between cases where G chromatograms () are derived either by binning along m/z or using the chromatographic clustering procedure.